Rare genetic disease can strike your family too
<p>When our son was diagnosed in early 2022 with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a rare and serious genetic disease with a frightening prognosis and no cure, my family’s life was immediately turned upside down. Part of the reason the diagnosis was so devastating was that it came completely out of nowhere.</p>
<p>So far as we were aware, neither my wife nor I had any history of genetic disease in our families. If anything, we thought that we had relatively good genetics and an above-average chance of creating a healthy, happy, and generally high-performing child. As a mixed race couple, we also assumed that we’d avoid the many genetic diseases that tend to have higher incidence in more ethnically homogenous populations, such as Tay Sachs disease in Ashkenazi Jews or sickle cell disease in peoples of African descent.</p>
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